Handlebar width on your touring bike.

[polishbiker]

Hi,

So...after 7 years of different tours i think i realized why i keep having issues with my shoulders/arms. Handlebars width...
Did a small 400km ride over the weekend and it felt like i am riding wide, did some measuring and my Thorn bars are 60cm (end to end of each grip so i guess the actual bars are like 58cm or so) width as opposed to 44 on my roadie, measured my shoulders and i am 44cm.

No idea why i had Thorn (straight bars with ergo grips) bars so wide over all these years but i am guessing its not a very ideal setup.

What is your shoulder to bars width?

Any input from all you touring people?: )

[rowdyflat]

I actually have wide shoulders and find roadie drop bars 44cm can feel too narrow and twitchy especially riding gravel.
I am changing one touring bike therefore to straight bars about 640. I agree ergon grips are the best.
The trend in mtbiking is super wide though with short stems ,which brings you back , 660 to 720 is OK but people go to nearly 800mm !!.